He charged his first client $100 and built them a homepage. He
doubled the price for his second client to $200. Soon, he upped
his price to $5,000 per website.

Ek was building websites all the time, and he trained bright
classmates to help him write lines of code. He paid them in video
games. Eventually he started bribing them to take his tests too,
so he could focus on the business.

At one point, Ek's web business was so successful, he was raking
in $50,000 per month. His parents noticed when big, expensive TVs
started infiltrating their home.

By age 18, Ek was managing a team of 25 employees.

Eventually he realized he wanted to create a company he was
passionate about. That's when Spotify came along.